Cycling tanks?

[Batmanjay28]

I just got a bowed front 28G tank today and was wondering if I was to add more then enough Cycle speed up that it would indeed speed up the cycling process and I would be able to add fish faster? Would it be ok to add some live plants into the tank while it is cycling? Is there something that I can do to speed up the cycling proess?

 

[NeonJulie]

You can't make bacteria multiply faster... but: You can speed up the entire process by borrowing seeded material from someone else's tank. That will give you a larger colony to start multiplying. And you can give it optimum conditions, slightly warmer temperatures and plenty of oxygen.

Cycle doesn't do really anything, is the opinion most people have... no bacteria could survive conditions like that. A better product would be Bio-Spira which is refrigerated (and costlier) and even that isn't a guarantee. My pack was unfortunately a dud. They do work for some people.

 

[Batmanjay28]

You can't make bacteria multiply faster... but: You can speed up the entire process by borrowing seeded material from someone else's tank. That will give you a larger colony to start multiplying. And you can give it optimum conditions, slightly warmer temperatures and plenty of oxygen.

Cycle doesn't do really anything, is the opinion most people have... no bacteria could survive conditions like that. A better product would be Bio-Spira which is refrigerated (and costlier) and even that isn't a guarantee. My pack was unfortunately a dud. They do work for some people.

Well what i did then i added water I took about 15G(about half the tank) from my 90G and then filled the rest of the tank with tap water. I added aquasafe, stresscoat, PH staplizer, and stresszyme. My temp is around 80.

 

[NeonJulie]

Ok well I'm going to leave the rest to the experts (comments on things like the pH Stabilizer), and just repeat the fact that taking water from one tank to the other won't accomplish anything... the bacteria doesn't live in the water; it lives on the gravel, stone decorations, and filter media. So if you have a 90G already going, you have plenty of substrate available to you to use.

 

[Batmanjay28]

Ok well I'm going to leave the rest to the experts (comments on things like the pH Stabilizer), and just repeat the fact that taking water from one tank to the other won't accomplish anything... the bacteria doesn't live in the water; it lives on the gravel, stone decorations, and filter media. So if you have a 90G already going, you have plenty of substrate available to you to use.

so are you saying that i can use some rocks from my 90G to my 28G and that will make a baceria colony in the 28G? If is thats what I'm going to do.

 

[johnlarson66]

The rocks work okay, but if you have any filter media, I would suggest that.

 

[WeeNe858]

Ok well I'm going to leave the rest to the experts (comments on things like the pH Stabilizer), and just repeat the fact that taking water from one tank to the other won't accomplish anything... the bacteria doesn't live in the water; it lives on the gravel, stone decorations, and filter media. So if you have a 90G already going, you have plenty of substrate available to you to use.

a small amount of bacteria do live in the water... but the fact that he/she filled it up with tap water might have wiped out all of the bacteria... and if you bio spira was a dud i htink there is a garentee or somthing.. or you just used it wrong?... bior spira is never a dud

seeding can work but it still takes time for your bacteria to multiply.. tahts what the time part is really about


but if your looking to speed it up.. get your hands on bio spira.. wait a day and then laod up with fishes

 

[Batmanjay28]

The rocks work okay, but if you have any filter media, I would suggest that.

what is a filter media? And were can i get it?

 

[Remmy]

Filter media is the material inside your aquariums filter, it is what holds the beneficial bacteria.
The most common media is sponge, some canister filters have compartments for bio balls (a type of media) which are small plastic/ceramic objects that have a large surface area for bacteria to grow on.

What they are suggesting, is that you take some filter sponge that has been in an established tank such as your 90g, meaning it will already have a colony of good bacteria growing on it, and either use it in your new filter or give it a good squeeze onto your new sponge.

 

[NeonJulie]

and if you bio spira was a dud i htink there is a garentee or somthing.. or you just used it wrong?... bior spira is never a dud.

I'm sure I didn't use it wrong, nor me and all of the +/- 50 posts I've read in the past 3 months. I don't show any guarantees from Marineland or Foster and Smith. Do you have a link or a fact to back this up?